Eric Herschthal is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, the Washington Post, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications.
“A smart, wide-ranging and learned book which will reshape our
understanding of science’s role in the international movement
against slavery.”—Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge
“While recent historical literature has shown the complicity of the
early science of man in the defense of slavery, Herschthal unearths
an equally long intellectual tradition of antislavery science. This
innovative book is timely, when science itself is under
assault.”—Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of
Abolition
“A brilliantly written and engaging text that succeeds in
complicating how prominently science was featured in the writings
and lives of both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates.
Herschthal deftly centers black thinkers and leaders as they
engaged with how science and scientific thinking could be utilized
radically to help dismantle slavery.”—Deirdre Cooper Owens, author
of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American
Gynecology
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